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Thursday Thrash at Mayfield Motorsports

To: "land-speed@autox.team.net" <land-speed@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Thursday Thrash at Mayfield Motorsports
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 19:02:24 -0700
Well, an early start today. Yesterday the WFSWB started reasonably well 
and since I did not have the tuner laptop yet, decided to work on other 
things. I had started fabricating a set of hood pins some time ago and 
decided it was time to finsh them. Now you ask why didn't I just buy 
some. Well, truthfully, there is nor access to add the pin hold down to 
the cowl. My hood is a rear opener type and there was just no place to 
put them. I had my wife help me woith the initial hood installationm 
(Thanks, Honey) and spent some time trying to adjust stuff. Car was so 
out of shape initially that it fits as well as it is ever gonna fit.  I 
used the hood stops, those little rubber bumper thingys that kep the 
hood from going down too far. I made some pieces to fit in their place. 
I screwed them in, made adjustments, and now they are ready for the 
final operation, drilling for the actual latch pin. A few moments at the 
drill press, a quick run to ACE HW for pins and I will be done.  The I 
got ambitious. I decided to put all the wheels and tires back on since I 
am basically done underneath. Wheeled out he air compressor and pumped 
the back ones to 60 psig and put them on. Now this is not quie as easy 
as I just made it sound. Have to disconnect the coil overs on the rear, 
and detach one end of the diagonal track locator rod. Then the whole 
shebang drops down far enough to get the wheels on. Put them on, will 
snug the lugs down tomorrow. After the wheels are on, then raise the 
rear end with the jack, reattach the coil overs, and the diagonal link. 
Piece of cake...yeah right. With my knees, it is hard to do. Front 
wheels are just nothing at all. Just like a regular car except for Weld 
wheels and racing tires. I set the tranny tunnel in place in the car and 
did it from the correct side, drivers side. No issues here. Put the seat 
in place and scratched the roll bar paint, SH*T! But the seat is now in 
place so I can measure for the seat belt length. Then I quit for the 
day. Oh the computer came, so had to farkle a bit with it. Has an issue 
or 2 that I need to work on. Like gettin a mouse...touse little touch 
pads drive me crazy. Also got DeLorme GPS for he laptop as well...so I 
can find my way in this world. I need to paly with the computer and 
install the software for tuning the car.

GAry had a stellar day with his lakester! He had spent some time doing 
some serious reading of the manuals for the DFI Gen 6 system and pretty 
much determined what he needed to do to make it functional. But, it 
didn't go as easy as it sounds at first. Lots of grinding anf poping and 
well, you know. belch smoking. He finall changed the plugs and went to 
his basic tune and Wholey Moley batman, it runs like a banshee! He shut 
it down several time and di hot restarts, just fine. Will try cold 
starts in the morning to see if it does as well. Good job Gary!

Well, that's enough fun for the day..

I'll send a short not in the morning describing what the cjallenges of 
the day are...

mayf

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